Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1967. A 19th century Church.

Church of St Mary

WRENN ID
patient-garret-peregrine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lancaster
Constituency
Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 October 1967
Type
Church
Period
19th century
Address
Church of St Mary, Main Street, Hornby-With-Farleton, LA2 8JT
OS grid reference
SD 584 685
Coordinates
54.11129, -2.63712
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Mary is a Roman Catholic church built in 1820, constructed from sandstone rubble and featuring a hipped slate roof. The east wall has a gabled porch that projects slightly, which includes a Venetian opening with a door flanked by windows. On either side of the porch, corbels support stone busts; the left bust is of Emperor Constantine, while the right bust is of King Oswald of Northumbria. Inside, the church has a flat ceiling, with the nave and chancel separated by two Tuscan columns and two attached columns. Behind the altar, there are two half-columns and two quarter-columns, which may have originated from an 18th-century chapel at Claughton that was dismantled to provide stone for this church. Dr. John Lingard, who authored the History of England, served as the priest at Hornby from 1811 to 1851 and was instrumental in the construction of the current church.

Local climate

Church of St Mary sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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